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Home About Events Research Training Issues Information Publications FAQs Media Support Links	Where to get information on The use of stone in buildings? Stone Federation of Great Britain. The geology of English building stones? British Geological Survey, Geoconservation Commission. Sources of English building stones? Stone Federation of Great Britain. The use of slate and stone for roofing? Stone Roofing Association. Sources of UK roofing slates and stones? Stone Roofing Association. Technical properties of building stone? Building Research Establishment. Investigation of building stone problems and failures? Building Research Establishment, UKAS (the publications page has a list of laboratories) Codes of practice for building stone use? British Standards Institution, Stone Federationof Great Britain. Conserving geological sites, materials from them, and other rocks, minerals and fossils? Geoconservation Commission. Training and courses? Here and at the Construction Industry Training Board
	Contact details   British Geological Survey Central Enquiries Desk, British Geological Survey, Kingsley Dunham Centre, Keyworth, Nottingham, NG12 5GG.  Tel +44 (0)115-936-3143 Fax +44 (0)115-936-3276 email Stone Federation of Great Britain Channel Business Centre, Ingles Manor, Castle Hill Avenue, Folkestone, Kent, CT20 2RD Tel +44 (0) 1303 856123 Fax +44 (0) 1303 221095 email Building Research Establishment Bucknalls Lane, Watford WD25 9XX  Tel +44 (0) 1923 664000 email Stone Roofing Association Ceunant, Caernarfon, Gwynedd LL55 4SA  Tel +44 (0) 1286 650 402 Fax 0709 230 7784 email British Standards Institution 389 Chiswick High Road, London W4 4AL  Tel  +44 (0) 20 8996 9000 Fax:  +44 (0) 20 8996 7001 email Geoconservation Commission  The Secretary, GeoConservation Commission, Geological Society of London, Burlington House, Piccadilly, London W1V 0JU email UKAS Tel +44 (0) 20 8917 8400 Fax +44 (0) 20 8917 8500 email Construction Industry Training Board ConstructionSkills, Bircham Newton, Kings Lynn, Norfolk PE31 6RH +4 (0) 1485 577577 email Top
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